Section 26 - White Papers & Architectures

Well Architected Framework General Guiding Principles

• Stop guessing capacity
• Test systems at production scale
• Automation
• Design based on changing requirements
• Driver architectures using data
• Simulate apps for flash sale days

WAF 6 Pillars

• Operational Excellence
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance Efficiency
• Cost Optimization
• Sustainability

AWS Well-Architected Tool

• Free tool to review architectures against the 6 pillars and adopt best architectural practices
• It works by:
  • Selecting a workload and you answering some questions
  • It reviews your answers against the 6 pillars
  • Advice through videos, documentations, reports and dashboard

Trusted Advisor

• Provides a high level AWS account assessment
• Recommendations in 6 categories:
  • Cost optimization
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Fault tolerance
  • Service limits
  • Operational excellence
• For the business and enterprise support plans, you get a full set of checks and programmatic access to the AWS Support API